bobby cox

This week, get thrown out with the GOAT Cox, Dora will Explora beyond the land of the living, your favorite poem is stupid now, and if your arms and legs are cold, just plug your bungus!

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Malcolm's Cream (Guest Podcast Promo):
Malcolm was on vacation this week, but he sure does love Homicide Worldwide, Pick Me!, Haunt Her? I Barely Know Her!, NightmareTown, Anime Talk!, and The Grapevine Cowboy, Kevin Busby!

Theme Music:
Jeremy Blake - Powerup!

Technical Difficulty Music:
Kevin Macleod - Local Forecast

Background Poetry Music:
Kevin MacLeod - The Dread


Nerd stuff and farts this episode:
Baseball, Bobby Cox, Atlanta Braves,  Harry Potter, Shuffle Stuff, Plutonian Ode, Allen Ginsburg, poetry, sex, slang

And remember, when life gives you grapes...

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Learn more about Sommly.com, a new way to discover, shop and interact with Texas wineries.

Sommly is an online marketplace where wine enthusiasts can explore wineries, join wine clubs, read reviews and buy - or give - the gift of Texas wine.

Similar to Etsy, Sommly enables artisan wineries to sell their wine direct-to-consumer and cut out the middleman.

Sommly’s marketplace will be launching in Texas early in 2022.
 

Visit Sommly.com to subscribe for exciting updates!

Top Texas Wine Stories of 2021

1. Weather challenges
2. Texas wine labeling compromise
3. Herbicide lawsuit
4. Growth in number of Texas wineries
5. Supply chain challenges
6. Winery openings and new hires
7. 20 new episodes of This Is Texas Wine podcast!
8. More Texas wine media
   1. Texas Winemakers series
   2. Uncorked
   3. Cactus Christmas book by Heather Renee May

Need lodging in Fredericksburg? Check out my home Cork + Cactus on Heavenly Hosts.com!

Texas is Mad for Mourvèdre

Texas Wine Lover Battle of Texas Mourvèdre (2017)

William Chris Vineyards Mourvèdre Tasting Video with Grower Interviews

Tablas Creek information about Mourvèdre

Edible Austin article

Hewitson - Home to the World’s Oldest Mourvèdre Vines (Australia)

Hardy Wallace’s Extradimensional Wine Company Yeah

Cline Cellars - Top Mourvèdre Grower in the US

Demerits and Gold Stars

Demerit:
 

Blasting tasting rooms for service problems rather than contacting owner/manager privately. eeekkkk!!!

Gold Star:

Dorothy & John’s article on Grape Collective: Here Are the Names and Words You Will be Hearing in 2022

Shelly’s Wine Education Website:

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Thanks to Texas Wine Lover for promotional help! For the latest information on Texas wineries and vineyards, visit Texas Wine Lover

Wine & Food Foundation

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Texas Wine In the News

1. Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green
2. San Antonio Current: Downtown San Antonio Wine Tasting room Re:Rooted 210 Opens This Week
3. Cheramie Wine Named to Wine Business Monthly’s Hot Brands 2020: The Wines that Defined the Year
4. Time to submit wines to TEXSOM International Wine Awards
5. New Dates for TWGGA Virtual Forum! Register now for Forum and Virtual Wine Tasting
6. Wine Searcher: Wine Wholesalers Line Winemakers’ Pockets
7. North Texas Wine Country’s Budbreak Wine Trail
8. Texas Hill Country Wineries: Tickets on sale now for February’s Wine Lover’s Celebration
9. Texas Fine Wine Monthly Virtual Wine Tasting
10. New Podcast about Viticulture in Texas: Republic of Vitis

Wine & Food Foundation

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Check out Heavenly Hosts for your Fredericksburg lodging needs! 

Feature: Winter Storm Whips Texas

Grapevine Cold Hardiness Graph by Pierre Helwi PhD and Justin Scheiner PhD of Texas A&M Viticulture and Enology

Sergio Cuadra of Fall Creek Vineyards: The impact of frigid weather on our vineyards

Dale Robertson for Houston Chronicle: How the Texas freeze will affect the state’s wineries and wine industry

Also quoted: social media posts from these Instgram accounts:
 

• Slate Mill Wine Collective: @slatemillwinecollective
   
• Chris Brundrett: @ighyetx
   
• Kerrville Hills Winery: @kerrvillehillswinery
   
• Maura & Dan Sharp: @sharpfamvines

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Thanks to Texas Wine Lover for promotional help! For the latest information on Texas wineries and vineyards, visit Texas Wine Lover

In this edition of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian tells the story of the weekend he went to Cooperstown, New York in 2018 to witness the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which saw his favorite player of all time, Chipper Jones, along with five others inducted into the town's famous museum. From booking the trip the last minute to meeting baseball Hall of Famers and legends, to being interviewed on Fox Sports, hear all about Ian's trip where he was one of 55,000 to attend a ceremony in a town whose population is about 1,700 people!